"You're exactly the young girl I want for my profession."
"Please, sir——"
"Hush!"
"Yus, sir."
"I repeat—and I wish you to listen—that in my profession you would rise to eminence. You haven't an idea what it is like, have you?"
"No—I mean I'm not sure——"
"You had better keep in ignorance, for it won't be really necessary for you to understand."
"Oh, sir."
"Not really necessary."
Connie looked up into the stern and very strange face.